MacSkipper wrote: Wasn't impressed by Gareth Morgan and his lipstick on a pig comment about labours new leader! |
Rocksteady wrote: One of the biggest problems I see is that for too long too many have considered that the environment and the economy are two separate issues and one can only prosper at the expense of the other. We need to start considering that the environment is critical to a prosperous NZ economy. Our clean, green image abroad is our point of difference. Once we lose that, then we are just another milk factory like any other country in the world. Our product looses it's added value. Dairy farmers have been hit hard in recent years by falling prices and must only be too aware of the dangers and instability of global commodity trading. We must maintain our point of difference to protect our economy! Same goes for fisheries... and this time I'm not talking about the value of dead fish packed into boxes for export. The value of having an abundant fishery in a beautiful environment could potentially draw billions of offshore dollars through tourism. Deplete the fishery or spoil the environment and these dollars are lost. This National government has no long term vision for this country and is void of imagination and leadership. All they care about is destructively exploiting and extracting as much short term "value" from our resources as possible with little regard to the long term effects to our future generations. We desperately need change. |
OneWayTraffic wrote: It must be said at this point that the good work in building a robust economy was partly done by the Clark government. Shame National stopped investing in the Cullen fund. Would have had enough in the bank to pay for another ChCh. National have done a good solid job, as did labour before them. IMO the last government to really dig NZ into a hole was Muldoon. |
MacSkipper wrote: Wasn't impressed by Gareth Morgan and his lipstick on a pig comment about labours new leader! |
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